Project Management & Controls

SERVICES

Project Management & Controls

Having difficulty controlling budget, costs, or schedule?

Need better methods of tracking progress or changes?

Fighting fires daily rather than foreseeing and mitigating issues in advance?

I can help with planning, controlling, executing, or analyzing your project or operations. I have worked in various contracting environments including Design-Build, Design-Bid-Build, EPC, EPCM, and professional services organizations. I use traditional waterfall methods or modern Agile Scrum frameworks to suit your project and business needs.

Advisory and support services include:

Project planning including work breakdown structures, intelligent coding structures, and controls integration
Estimating
Scheduling
Cost management including control budgets, commitments, actuals, forecasting, and cost flows
Change management
Billing management including progress measurement, forecasting, and cash flows
Procurement and execution strategy development
Progress measurement, milestones, key performance indicators, and metrics
Project and operations analysis including claims analysis

Process Improvement & Automation

Tired of performing the same mundane tasks or manual reconciliations?

Is one report different from the last and difficult to compare?

Want to spend more time being proactive on value added tasks?

Every level of business can benefit from process improvement and automation. No need to spend money on additional software licenses or services - significant improvements can be developed and implemented within your existing suite of Microsoft Office applications.

Advantages of developing and implementing tools and templates to support new and existing business processes:

Automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks
Begin to integrate with corporate systems of record
Implement repeatable processes to produce reliable results
Increase administrative efficiency and spend more time on value added business tasks
Provides a basis for systems development and further integration

Systems Development & Integration

Do you rely on people catching errors instead of preventing them through established business rules and processes?

Is everyone in your team looking at the same numbers? Are the numbers even up to date?

Do you have a single source of truth that everyone can rely on to do their work?

Structuring and storing essential business data in a single place can help your operations move to the next level of efficiency. Creating a system provides structured and validated data that can be relied upon by your business. This data source can be further utilized to help your business be more effective.

Solutions for smaller projects or specific business needs can be rapidly developed within your existing suite of Microsoft Office applications avoiding additional licensing, hardware, or service costs. For larger company wide projects or those with complex requirements solutions can be developed in Microsoft SQL Server to suit your needs, infrastructure, and budget.

Advantages of developing and implementing database applications and integrated business support systems:

Control of data redundancy and integrity over its entire life cycle
Improved consistency, completeness, and quality of data through validation
Ability to share different views of the same data with multiple users concurrently
Ability to administer control over your data including security and record auditing
Master data management and facilitation of data ownership and governance
Enables reporting and analysis of business transactions and key business data
Facilitates integration with other systems, tools, and processes
Provides the opportunity to create a business intelligence capability

Business Intelligence & Analytics

Do you quantitatively know how your business is performing compared to last week? Last month? This time last year?

Do you know how your operations are currently trending and do you know where they could go? Best case? Worst case?

Do you make business decisions based upon fact or feeling?

Business intelligence and analytics is not just for big business - get the most value from your business data and gain insights to support the management of projects and day-to-day operations. Business intelligence, analytics, and data warehousing solutions and services can be achieved for any business at a scale to match your needs, infrastructure, and budget.

Using special data modeling, warehousing, and visualization techniques, the operation and performance of your business can be analyzed and presented in Microsoft Excel, Power Pivot, or Power BI.

Advantages of developing and implementing business intelligence solutions:

Obtain insights and a deeper understanding of the performance of your business
Analyze, monitor, actively manage, and improve business processes and operations through metrics
Improve operational and strategic decision making based upon the analysis and presentation of real data
Optimize the performance and direction of your business to gain competitive advantage
Assets can be developed and implemented incrementally returning value on your investment sooner

Implementation Support & Training

Implementing a new process or system and don't have the resource availability or expertise to do it?

Want to learn more about how to get the most from your data?

Would you like to change the way you work and make everything you do more scalable and repeatable?

All tool, process, and system implementations require support and training to ensure successful outcomes. It is essential to support staff during these crucial times to help adoption and resolve any issues as soon as possible.

Employee knowledge and skills also need to keep pace with technology and improvement initiatives so that they are able to adapt and get the most out of any new tool or system. Employee training can also help extend or develop a skill set to build an in-house capability within an organization.

Advantages of implementation support and training:

Help user adoption and address implementation issues as soon as possible
Mitigate risk and protect your investment to ensure successful outcomes for improvement initiatives
Expand the skills and knowledge of your employees
Build an in-house capability so that your organisation can be self-sufficient in new areas
Developing and investing in your employees will help their productivity, engagement, and job satisfaction